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Longing

Acrylic on Stretched Canvas 36x48

This was painted during a worship service, but it was from an experience I had in my quiet time months earlier. The Lord led me to release it at a MOW conference in Raleigh NC at The Worship Center. The first song the worship team sang invited the Lion of Judah to come. It was a confirmation from the Father that it was His will to paint the vision.

In the vision I was on the Lion’s back holding onto His mane and He was wearing a crown. We seemed to be in outer space because it was dark and there were stars all around. At one point, He banked to the right and then looked down below us. Out of curiosity I looked over my right shoulder to see what had captured His attention, that is when I saw the earth. It was so beautiful against the black sky, its colors were glowing in the darkness. It looked alive.

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I turned back to see His reaction and when I did, I saw His face was being lit up from the illumination below. When I looked into His eyes, I saw the earth being reflected there. The longing I saw in His eyes reminded me of how a Groom looks when he sees his Bride coming towards him in a wedding. He began to share with me, without talking, how He longed to be with Her, she was His Creation, His Masterpiece, and the Love of His Life. His Bride. I could feel His longing and sadness. Then I saw a tear coming from His eye. For weeks after I saw this, when I would try to share it, the feelings and deep love He has for us would come back and overwhelm me bringing me to tears. I pray you will feel and know His Love for you too.

He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft. Deut. 35:10b-11

You will call out to me, and I will answer you. Your hands created me. So you will long for me. Job 14:15

"Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them." Hebrews 7:25 NIV

"Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them" Hebrews 7:25 KJV

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, (Psalms 17:8)

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. (Lamentations 2:18)

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. (Zechariah 2:8)